to the taliban despite us nato began handing control over one of the country's thirty four provinces to the locals on sunday but there is concern there too divided untrained and ill equipped to fanned off the insurgency by themselves jason reports from kabul. there's confusion on the faces of the afghan army soldiers as a firefight unfolds on the other side of the wall lucky for them this is the kabul military training center in the bullets being fired blanks the men here halfway through a ten week program and the officers don't cut the many slack when it's over the be deployed eastern province one of afghanistan's most violent corners. but we must push them hard so they can perform under pressure day by day we're making progress the afghan national army has already come a long way its ranks have swollen to about one hundred seventy thousand troops thanks to fresh waves of recruits attracted by higher wages and extra perks the soldiers insist they are all united in their desire to be back to tell abominate insurgency regardless of age or ethnicity many here are what we are old brother and

we are all called by one. god by the call of duty has also struck a chord beyond able bodied males a first ever class of woman soldiers has just graduated. and there's even a mujahideen unit made up of hardened veterans of the anti soviet you this is all good news to u.s. military planners who have set a two thousand and fourteen going to hand over security responsibilities to the afghans the afghan army enjoys a much better reputation in the police force and has even been featured in the recent movie. but is the army takes greater responsibility for security around the country there are concerns that the quality of troops may be coming at the expense of quality starters more than eighty percent of troops are illiterate a big problem in ability to read maps and numbers can spell the difference between life and adding to the woes are widespread drug use and desertion as today roughly one in four combat soldiers quit their post critics also point out that the military leadership is made up of many rival ex warlords who still command

loyalties along regional an ethnic lines and could drag the country deeper into conflict as the u.s. begins to scale back its role as custodian this summer there are concerns that these divisions may flare up if i was not neutral. these. groups are the groups who control. yet another obstacle for a young army that still has much to prove before it can still be. called for. the u.s. may be on the move from afghanistan but it's not going far it's next focus as neighboring pakistan which has long been a sore in the side in the war on terror with insurgents they are often seven nato supply lines r.t. as military contributor thinks the only way america can save face in afghanistan is to rekindle its ties. they u.s. congressman hunter warns that united states is seriously considering several

options including the direct and kinetic intervention of the u.s. forces into pakistan to do decisively with the taliban and hog a network training camps which were the same that the united states were so actively helping and assisting pakistan to wage today and i saw a jihad in afghanistan using the same heading proxy force led trained by pakistani intelligence which was actively supported by their american partners what happens right now in afghanistan is neither war no peace in reality the american occupation is completely bogged down and the spare allies sound where in the twilight zone between war and peace now the u.s. lawmakers facing a very serious dilemma on the one side they're eager to blackmail pakistan we have the united states military intervention on the other side they are acutely aware

that the time has come for the united states to pack up and go home from afghanistan and to be exposed to the accusations that american exit plan is just cut and run so the only face saving opportunity right now for the united states to leave afghanistan b.s. to rebuild their credibility gap pakistan and to get a permission for u.s. forces to read deployment from afghanistan to pakistan the swamp land introduced couple of weeks ago could help the united states to avoid making the impression they just cut and run from afghanistan and on the other side it would need to gain their respects wide named in military hostilities for him again to stand to pakistan and be. in a few minutes on r.t. the green card immigrants who are now see. after living in american cities lottery there are now being told no entry to their new lives tell you why. one of the last

world war two era war crimes suspect is due to learn his fate we ordered from hungary. the resignations keep coming in the british newspaper phone hacking scandal now that the u.k.'s most senior police officer has quit sir paul stephenson was facing a growing backlash over hiring a former news of the world executive as an advisor who was later questioned about illicit phone tapping the axe police commissioner also took a swipe at the prime minister saying his choice of adviser was a worst decision namely former attitude and he calls it a rapid developments rebecca brooks who ran the paper was arrested as part of an investigation she quit on friday as for murder and is due to join him and he's son james facing m.p.'s on tuesday over unethical reporting methods and police bribery media alast film recess playing off a service for information has been going on for years. this is

a good example of what the police have been doing in the kind of murdoch years they've been using a receipt been leaking they're being paid for telling people where some celebrities have been arrested so actually manipulating the rest of people is actually a practice that is becoming trying though in my view as a result of the kind of bribery thing so this would hardly be out of practice but i don't think it's going to deflect opinion i mean there are so many m.p.'s now and indeed so much of the british establishment which for so long kowtow to murdoch is now prepared to get to the bottom of this and we doubt those people who have been corrupted at different levels remember that four years ago right the police had these bags with i think it was a live one thousand letters about four thousand celebrities and victims of crime and all these other people and they knew they were taking part investigate. these bags were just left there i mean it's amazing it's remarkable that it took four years for them to do anything about this meanwhile senior police officers were

wining and dining with members of the murdoch empire they were they were meeting them for drinks privately one even hired them at a thousand pounds a day to work for him so you know what does this tell us about the relationship between the police and the news corp employees well it's very very serious and if this can happen at the top of the police look at the example that gives to officers down down the lines now you could well you know can any organization properly examine itself but so much is at stake that if that operation is seen to be corrupted as well i think we've got you know an even bigger problem i think so many people now are watching it including you know members of parliament select committees these are investigative bodies within the british political system they're all all eyes are on this let alone all the journalists who are looking at what's going on so i think that the ramifications of this is so big i mean you know britain is this is shaking at this each day it's headline news and people are asking who's next that's timing our backup groups are asked is raising

a few eyebrows former british intelligence officer and he was shines as it's more than a coincidence. it's very unusual to have someone this close to the heart of the heart of power in the u.k. being arrested but i suppose based on the prima factual evidence around this case it would be unavoidable for the police not to arrest having said that of course it is a very long journey from arrest to being charged to being put on trial and to be convicted so i suppose i'd be more surprised if if she were charged if this does proceed towards a legal hearing i have to say that i think it's the timing of this arrest is very interesting because it's highly highly unusual for someone to be a prearranged arrest to turn themselves into a police station and go through the rest process on a sunday and of course is just two days before she was due to appear before a parliamentary committee so no way she's going to sort of get out of jail free card i can't possibly talk about this is subject to legal proceedings so in a way i suppose one hundred slightly suspicious turn of mind one might think that the police taking this step at this stage. allowing her little wriggle room i

shouldn't have to say too much and so we'd have to say too much about the leaks of the police service in london as well so it's very very interesting timing. the cruiser that sank in the volga to be lifted later on monday once the vessel is moved off its side what is one of the operations most difficult stages attempts to put the ship on an even keel resumed after a balancing sling ruptured on sunday the next task is to search the riverbed for fifteen missing victims and then raise the bow twenty meters to the surface investigators and relatives hope that definitive answers can be found as to why the ship sank but recovery crews say the work is complicated because the vessel is stuck in the silt at the bottom of the volga the bulgarian went down in minutes leaving more than half of that she wanted eight passengers with no chance to escape one of russia's more step or water disasters. are closely following the recovery operation and has

a bad ground to the tragedy so keep up to date there and there's also our you tube channel for all our video reports of a cell this mission. russia's southern caucasus has been shaken by two deadly blasts in the chechen republic two policemen were killed and seven more injured when an explosion hit a special search operation in the mountainous region meanwhile an overnight blast and stone is left another two policemen dead and three people wounded the roadside bomb detonated as a patrol car was driving through the city of species the blast also damaged a gas pipeline disrupting the city's supplies early reports suggest that the explosion was equivalent to six kills of t.n.t. i will bring you more developments in the region as we get them. one of the last remaining nazi war crimes suspects will soon learn his fate and a hungarian court ninety seven year old hero is charged with

a massacre killing civilian hostages in serbia he was discovered living in budapest in two thousand and six and is one of the few left to stand trial for holocaust crimes sarah firth reports from hungary. it's been described as the world's most wanted nazi he stands accused of the participation in the new tourist must occur in the city of no he said in one thousand nine hundred eighty one thousand two hundred jewish and serbian people were killed by hunger in forces now the prosecution say that though he's directly responsible for the deaths the thirty six jewish people thirty to fifteen were put in a lorry and driven away to be sure that the court's already been adjourned he complained that he couldn't understand what was being said and the judge in the trial said that she wasn't sure that this you know was even fully aware of what was going on and so in a german with schools in order for him to receive a hearing a mental health assessment and being restarted in the verdict expected to be

delivered it's today that he's one of the last remaining suspected war criminals he was tried and convicted in one thousand nine hundred eighty four but that conviction was quashed of the fascist government came into power in the same year the defense here is saying that according to hunger in law you can't convict someone of the same offense twice the prosecution is saying that doesn't stand up as his previous acquittal was due to political considerations and not evidence now just a few months ago in may we saw the child of even demean you come to an end he was sentenced to five years and the prosecution in this case has said that they've been pushing for that business sentence going to be the verdict that they're hoping for today. so forth reporting there let's not take a look at some other stories from around the world lead the rebels who are carrying out an assault on government forces in the eastern town of bragg a home to one of the country's biggest oil facilities nato has also been targeting procrit off the forces in the area with days of intense bombardment you know winds

of trying to muster support for the rebels who have suffered heavy losses in recent days but often made another defined speech and that we can't deny rumors he was leaving he struggles to. well the months long revolt. more liesl clashes in syria this stand between pro and anti-government protesters around thirty are thought to have died as a fighting force people began using firearms against each other last week three supporters of president were kidnapped and killed and their dismembered bodies returned to their relatives the anti-government dan'l scrag downs are thought to have killed over thirteen hundred people since it began in january. during leaders have undertaken a massive government reshuffle after public anger over slow post revolution reform most of the points are to relative newcomers who are not linked with the regime of hosni mubarak and there are also conflicting reports about the president's health

or says mubarak is in a coma or which doctors. venezuela's president has transferred some powers to his ministers while he returns to cuba for cancer treatment experts warned that it which obvious his health issues could seriously affect the political situation in the country. the problem here being that he's regina counseled a lot of internal and external opposition for centuries notably funded and supported politically economically and eventually to militarily by the united states of america and the united states is clearly. making its rejean change policies which we are seeing now in north africa and in the middle east bring them over to latin america so from the i'm speaking from when i was in argentina i'm particularly concerned that hugo chavez's health problems will debilitate will weaken the present government in israel and that can be seen as an opportunity by

the united states or rather by the global power elite that operate from the united states to promote regina change in venezuela and if it starts in venezuela it will no doubt spread to other countries notably ecuador bolivia and perhaps even argentina now as us hobble telescope has been a space watching war horse for two decades but now gets to share the job of revealing the universe's biggest mysteries a russian eye in the sky is on its way to help out and it's packing the sharpest hills in galaxy and off now one of the baikonur cosmodrome and castle span to see it off. this is the moment to russian space scientists have been waiting for for decades the space observatory it creeped with the cutting edge telescope a huge top and universe explorer ation as an enormous i will be able to see further and deeper than ever before it with the possible to observe the most mysterious the doc has. the most shadowed corners of our galaxy and other galaxies as well and

stars even it will be able to observe black holes and shed light on the said doc nature these few to know most i will be able to provide detailed images detailed pictures of the universe with a resolution ten thousand times shop and then america's hobble so we can see something is happening so i'll let you enjoy the moment. so this was. gone. but it seems like really. going to stop if it's going to be ready for strong when i go to the polls center here in the summertime with me. but i do

a strong to unfold to explain to somebody and make everything ready to work with a nine month old to we will see the top receive the first results means the first images of the universe for all that good bye can hope we have been able to speak to you they had a russian space agency was called most. often and he believes that this mission which is expected to last five years is something all humankind will be able to benefit from. regional should not be reported from baikonur. while the telescope takes its place russia's space agency boss tells r.t. layer of the sour what he hopes. for in scientists not the russian ones seven or telescope is more interesting than the hubble space telescope in terms of making new findings it's a very profound science that implies a high degree of relativity of the final result it's difficult to forecast anything

here the telescope makes it possible to monitor the emergence of new stars and galaxies in the radio frequency band to see how the whole process goes on governor some statistical data on the basis of which it would be possible to predict the dynamics of development of our comment on the universe and to understand where we have all come from is waiting for us in the future in this respect this is a historical event which marks russia's return to space science. getting a green card to live in america but every year oh walk a few thousand randomly hit the jackpot or sell the thought accords roll the latest lottery a list just isn't arbitrary enough and as tearing up emigrants invite parties got to stick out explains. hoping for a better life in america. from nigeria applied for the green card lottery he won or

so it said in the letter that he received from the state department almost two weeks later the us voided the results of the lottery for some twenty two thousand people including a war that i want to lot to for a four star and a lottery. it's one from each year the u.s. state department grants green cards to some fifty thousand people from around the globe the lottery where the jackpot is the right to live and work in america is advertised as completely random the state department claims in this case there was a computer glitch and the results were not arbitrary and a computer programming error caused more than ninety percent of the selectees to come from the first two days of the registration period the victims of the blunder have joined in a class action suit against the u.s. state department and lost the court here has been struggling with the issue of randomness asking how could the result of the green card lottery not be random even

if there had been a computer glitch as the state department claims one of the arguments is that even in the era like that could produce a random result then the whole idea behind the green card lottery is that whoever you are whatever you do you can win it but this case could very well undermine that perception experts specializing in information technology say the decision of the state department as well as the court that dismissed the case defies simple logic rhonda means that if all records of all the tracks are on your cd player when you hit the run you may get tracks three four and five in the track twelve that's still run the state department has brought up intricate technical arguments to explain the blunder but thousands of its victims say they have the feeling that someone has gambled with their lives we believe that america. going to shut down our t. washington d.c. . now green card required for your access all areas pass to our website and here's

what's lining up now at our. fabulous more than one hundred masterpieces going to show from the greatest russian jeweler of all time this part of the palace is crowning summer season. and a formula one frenzy in the heart of moscow we report on the mean machines and you'll see the racing show celebrate r.t. dot com for more. well more revelations in our two sports in just over twenty minutes time as bud and returns to moscow three years before the city gets its first formula one grand prix blog before the ad will take a look at what's happening and the world of business math reza joins us next. hello and welcome to your r.t. business bulletin très a european banks start the week in a mixed mood most are relieved passing the stress test but there are still wide

open to sovereign shock from bad debt with the u.s. and europe investment analysts though think that could open doors for russian lenders. the german banks in particular were exposed to toxic assets in the united states. the german banks for example were exposed to iceland they had nineteen billion dollars of exposure to iceland. and the irish banks the english banks are also not feeling very well. the. u.s. by. are still suffering from their exposure to toxic assets so within this area within the euro ration market the russian banks which has gone through the crisis relatively well are actually in a position. with cash to go around to spend money and buy up. relatively good assets been in europe and so this purchase my spirit of

international is a first step and we may see some of the commercial banks. following suit doing the same sort of thing. take a look now at the markets oil is lower with investors concerned about worsening debt crisis in europe may slow the economy and we're on fuel demand turning to asia the hang saying is flat to positive help by a report showing home prices rose in china mainland stocks are leading the gains bucking the trend are europe related stocks japanese markets are closed for a public holiday. here in moscow the r.t.s. has opened in the red the my sex about to start trading russian markets ended the previous week mixed volumes were down as many people were away on holiday and direction remained unclear. industrial output speeding up in a rush or it grew almost six per cent in june year on year compared with four

percent in may car production a key driver in the sector benefiting from a higher demand and investment activity at all is to expect even faster growth in the coming months i made a low. interest rates and cooling inflation. russian tourists seem happy to splash the cash abroad as much as splashing around on the beach citibank says holiday makers spending outside the country grew twenty eight percent year on year to one hundred forty million dollars that's the highest level since two thousand and seven with russians mostly preferring to spend their vacation cash in the u.s. italy and great britain's. general impression that russia has bonds back to pre-crisis though do your impression that you know was close to full particularly the range of the pretty much stable microeconomic situation in russia people feel more confident. and that brings you up to date this hour or more coming your way in the next hour a business report any time at r.t. dot com slash business brain is up next with the headlines.

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economy. welcome back you're watching arche line from moscow these are the top stories the taliban take out another target on the or nato collaborators list as foreign troops begin withdrawing while leaving a question of a local force in charge of the afghan army is known for having numerous drug addicts and people linked to insurgency. one while another is bale to murder media misconduct seize britain's most senior policeman quit over connections to journalist suspected of bribery and phone hacking while news international chief rebecca brooks is arrested. than a cosmic companion for the hubble telescope and russia's own eye in the sky gets

ready to seek out the secrets of our universe the radio estrada boasts a much higher resolution than its nasa cousin. russia space chief. has far reaching outlook for the country's cosmic plans. russia is launching its biggest space telescope at a huge to orbit earth and carefully observe our universe looking deeper and further to shed light on the darkest and most mysterious corners of our galaxy and others what does this mean for us and for russia they had a russian space agency ross costless is here with me thank you very much mr for joining us thank you for inviting me well americans have all will now have company in our bit is the russian telescope looking to discover something hubble's missing

during all the years it's been operating. for and scientists not the russian ones seven or telescope is more interesting than the hubble space telescope in terms of making new findings it's a very profound slimed start implies a high degree of relativity of the final result it's difficult to forecast anything here to telescope makes it possible to monitor the emergence of new stars and galaxies in a radio frequency band to see how the whole process goes and gather some statistical data on the basis of which it will be possible to predict the dynamics of development of our planet and the universe and to understand where we have all come from and what's waiting for us in the future in this respect this is a historical event which marks russia's return to space science america is also about to send its new telescope the web which is supposed to replace hubble in two thousand and fourteen is there any new space research raise between moscow and.